[HPforGrownups] Houses and Percy

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scaryfairymary wrote:

>  >> Calimora wrote:
>  >
>  > << Slytherin house doesn't seem to gather all of ambitious people
>  >>
>  >
>  > I've always felt that Slytherin House accumulates not so much the
>  > ambitious as the unscrupulous, those who aren't picky about what
>  > means they use to achieve their ends, even if their ends are
>  > un-ambitious things like "obey Draco".
> 
> 
> I always wondered why Percy was not sorted into Slytherin.  He
> certainly has the ambition and the will to do pretty much anything
> for power.  I never liked Percy (as my many posts on the 'Percy is
> evil' issue many moons ago can verify :) ) and I see his behaviour
> towards his family in OOP as vinidication of my position.  I am not
> seeking to reopen the Percy debate, merely trying to ascertain why
> he was put in Gryffindor.  He is not brave in the slightest, he only
> seems to want to be the favour of whoever is seen to have the most
> authority at any given time, McGonnagal and Dumbledore, then Crouch
> sr, now Fudge.  It will be interesting to see if he changes colours
> again in the next book when it seems DD will once again be the 'main
> man'.  In many ways he reminds me of Pettigrew
> 
> 
> -Mary


I think its plain that Slytherins will use *any* means to achieve their 
ambition, whereas Gryffs just won't be that ruthless; their compassion 
and ethics won't allow them. So Percy might be out on a limb, but he 
won't go over to the dark side completely. However, that does give him 
leeway to behave like Fudge and Crouch Snr, whom he has/had great 
respect for, so the actal result could be just as bad............

ugh, not looking forward to reading *that* part in book six, but 
expecting it just the same.

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